– cops seeking husband
Police confirmed yesterday that the Crabwood Creek woman who it was claimed died after she fell down her stairs on Monday evening following a drinking spree with her husband was in fact murdered.

Results of a post-mortem examination revealed that Esther Liloutie Albert, 44, a housewife of Grant 1803 Crabwood Creek, died of manual strangulation.

She was taken to the Skeldon Hospital where she was pronounced dead on arrival.

Her husband was sent to the Springlands Police Station in the meantime to make a report never got there and has since disappeared.

Reports are that the woman’s husband reportedly hit her with a broom and dealt her several slaps. This newspaper learnt yesterday that the man also “choked” her before pushing her down the stairs.

According to a relative, the woman started to bleed from a wound on her head. The man then picked her up and tried to wash off the blood and put her on the bed. She remained there all night groaning in pain.

Early the following morning, after the woman appeared to be unconscious the man sent his 12-year-old son to call his mother who lives nearby to see what had happened and to bring some methylated sprits to try to revive her.

However, his mother said when she got to the house she lifted the woman’s hand and it fell and she realized she was dead.

After arranging to take the woman to the hospital where her death was confirmed, she gave the man money to go to the police station to make a report but she has not heard from him since.

Police sources had said on Tuesday that while they were not treating the woman’s death as a homicide, the husband’s disappearance had “aroused some suspicion.”

Sources said the couple’s three children did not relate to investigators that their father had beaten their mother because “he would normally beat them and they were afraid.”